Ceará Women and The Way of Making Literature [Sector Ceará Collection]

In 1998, Natércia published her first novel A Casa, and was awarded the Osmundo Pontes Literature Prize.  The novel has as a character the house itself, which is a kind of storyteller.  

The book was published in 1901, as part of a collection of chronicles and short stories already published previously in the press. There are 37 short narratives written in a soft language, having as leitmotiv the presence of nature and all the symbolism it expresses. 

Some of these narratives were translated to Swedish and French. 

Angela Gutiérrez's debut novel written around 1982, but not published until 1990. The narrative is about the story of Flora, a thirty-three-year-old woman, who reminisces about her childhood and is confronted with her fears, her experiences, and her dreams.

The story mixes the good and bad memories of the past involving the different generations of the family, especially the women. Flora's imagination fits many simple and complex things, having as leitmotif the fear transiting between life and death.

O Mundo de Flora is a novel that raises discussions about themes such as death, religion, prejudice, racism, education, and politics. The narrative is structured in short chapters, snippets of the characters' lives, in a non-linear timeframe.